European-Americans?  Is that the politically correct term for "white folk?"  Whether it is or isn't, the term "European" is inaccurate and I take issue with being so called.  My ancestors were in Virginia early on.  They were European, I am not.  I am a proud un-hyphenated adjective-free American with Virginia ancestors who came to this continent from Europe.  

Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:  Gentrification by African-Americans generally brings out very strange, not 
to say atavistic reactions from rural and small town European-Americans. 
The story of the shift in Montgomery County, MD is telling. As tens of 
thousands of black people moved out of Washington, DC into that suburb, the 
country became obviously blacker, but also wealtheir and better educated. 
While this integration was carried out fairly peacefully, I will bet there 
is a doctoral dissertation lurking in a close research of the process.

A similar gentrification is taking place to the south, in Virginia, where I 
read even the Northern Neck region is being subdivided. As an historian of 
the South, I never simply dispose of race as a subject of analysis, but the 
moving of portions of the black (and Latino) administrative and professional 
elite (I hate the term middle class because it describes so little) into 
developing northern Virginia will also raise sharp questions of class as 
well.

Harold S. Forsythe

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